http://boxesandarrows.com/crossing-boundaries-2005-ia-summit-wrapup-overview-and-pre-sessions/ Boxes and Arrows is devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design; including graphic design, interaction design, information architecture and the design of business. Mon, 20 May 2013 13:09:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://boxesandarrows.com/crossing-boundaries-2005-ia-summit-wrapup-overview-and-pre-sessions/#comment-9897 Are Gjertin Urkegjerde Halland Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://boxesandarrows.com/crossing-boundaries-2005-ia-summit-wrapup-overview-and-pre-sessions/#comment-9897 Just a quick note about “disneyfication” of taxonomies: I believe the reference was made to how Disney usually lifts a local fairy tale (like the hunchback or pochahontas) and cleans away all the “dangerous” cultural connotations to fit it to a global market without offending anyone. A similar case can be made against a taxonomy crafted to fit in to any cultural context; we might loose something vital on the way there. But the main point I was trying to make was not necessarily about american cultural “propaganda”, but one about what we might loose on the way from a locally rooted taxonomy (or fairy tale) to a global one-size-fits-all taxonomy (or the Disney-version of that fairy tale).

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